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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

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And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

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Presentation: Session 5A on Dec 11, 2025! See you there!

New paper @ #CHR2025!

Our work uncovers how Korean–English code-switching shapes Western success on the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200. From gender patterns to linguistic trends, know more through the paper.
Link: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

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🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈

Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy

Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++

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A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

In K-dramas, food often operates as its own kind of language — a conversational channel that runs parallel to dialogue and, at times, speaks louder than it.

www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

Sam Altman BTW, good idea for me to tweet something nice about Elon? Have been meaning to do this after he DMd about not being in the photo from the first day of OpenAI. Just about how much I and others look up to him, how critical his early contributions to OpenAI are, etc.

Sam Altman texts Shivon Zilis

February 9, 2023

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It. If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped.

But in poetry, whitespace matters!

Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.

New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

Amazon MTurk

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Amazon MTurk, launched on Nov 2, 2005, to pioneer “artificial artificial intelligence”: using 500,000 underpaid workers to annotate, review, imitate AI. What a difference 20 years makes! Today they’re still underpaid but there are tens of millions of them.

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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

Even though it should feel pointless to care about this as our republic crumbles but somehow this shit does still make my blood boil

www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

I would gladly read a followup on this focused entirely on IRBs. I've been surprised by how often researchers say they could never got approval to run tests mimicking the sort of interventions that major platforms undertake on far larger populations as a matter of course on a daily basis.

Five staples fuelling UK food inflation as climate risks rise, study finds Findings challenge narrative that food price growth is being driven by higher taxes and wage costs

Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee are responsible for much of the UK’s food inflation, with climate change the key driver of rising grocery bills

#climatecrisis
@eciu.net
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/ced8...

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Explaining Speech Classification Models via Word-Level Audio Segments and Paralinguistic Features Eliana Pastor, Alkis Koudounas, Giuseppe Attanasio, Dirk Hovy, Elena Baralis. Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long...

#TBT #NLProc "Explaining Speech Classification Models" by Pastor et al. (2024) makes speech classification more transparent! 🔍 Their research reveals which words matter most and how tone and background noise impact decisions.

"I really don't care, do you?" is now the new ethos ...

"Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World. Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism." gizmodo.com/fake-protest...

Alt text: A tweet from DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) reads: “Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post–Civil War era. • Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave • Players would fight the emerging KKK • Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash.” The source link is listed as “gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubisof…”. Below the text are two images side by side: on the left, a hooded Assassin in white and red armor from the Assassin’s Creed series; on the right, the red Assassin’s Creed logo on a plain background. The tweet was posted at 4:11 PM on October 8, 2025, and has 665.8K views.

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

#survey #germany
The English version of the #ALLBUS 2023 is now published. New in '23: attitudes towards #climate change
Younger respondents are more likely to attribute climate change to human causes, whereas older ones tend to assume that natural processes and human causes have an equal influence.

Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments.

In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.

doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...

GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.

A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.

Tout ou presque est faux dans cet entretien donné à @lemonde.fr, mais il faudrait pour le savoir lire les gens qui étudient la société.

Une démonstration en trois exemples.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

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OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Registration for #CHR2025 is now open! Visit our website for details on registration fees and how to register: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/venue/

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